170 – 2017 Year End Review
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays! Our final podcast of 2017 will be our year end review where we cover our favorite manga and anime from the past year!
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168 – Manga in Motion 24 – In This Corner of the World
168 – Manga in Motion 24 – In This Corner of the World
On this episode we’ll be reviewing In This Corner of the World, another anime hit from 2016, to find out if it can pull at darfox’s heartstrings!
Continue reading166 – Triple Dip 24 – Coppelion, Shigurui, Mardock Scramble
166 – Triple Dip 24 – Coppelion, Shigurui, Mardock Scramble
Quick heads for this week’s episode. We have a serious discussion about the ramifications of selling lolita hentai in Japan. It’s time stamped in the description so you can skip over it if the subject matter offends you.
This week we check out Coppelion, Shigurui, and Mardock Scramble for Triple Dip!
165 – One Shot 8 – A Distant Neighborhood
165 – One Shot 8 – A Distant Neighborhood
Seamus is out sick this week but it isn’t stopping us from doing a One Shot retrospective on A Distant Neighborhood!
Continue reading164 – Creator Cross Section 2 – Tsutomu Takahashi
164 – Creator Cross Section 2 – Tsutomu Takahashi
This week we’ll be examining seinen manga artist Tsutomu Takahashi. What will first time readers, darfox and Seamus, think of this slightly unknown manga artist!? Tune in to find out!
Continue reading163 – Manga in Motion 23 – A Silent Voice
163 – Manga in Motion 23 – A Silent Voice
Darfox is back and we’re ready to review the anime movie adaptation of A Silent Voice for our main segment Manga in Motion!
Continue reading161 – Triple Dip 23 – Arakawa Under the Bridge, Princess Jellyfish, Toaru Ossan No VRMMO Katsudouki
161 – Triple Dip 23 – Arakawa Under the Bridge, Princess Jellyfish, Toaru Ossan No VRMMO Katsudouki
This week dakazu is back and it’s time to talk about the first volumes of three different manga for our Triple Dip section!
Continue reading156 – Manga in Motion 21 – Brave Story
156 – Manga in Motion 21 – Brave Story
This week Seamus reads another volume of Kiss and White Lily for my Dearest Girl, dakazu finishes Steve Jobs and Magical Girl Apocalypse, he questions the motivation of making an Amish girl the protagonist in Dare ga Kenja wo Koroshita ka?(Who Killed the Sage?), and we discuss if sharing stories of real people is exploitative in Uhyo! Tokyo-to Kita-ku Akabane! Then we talk about our main topic, Brave Story! We examine the novel it’s based on and compare it to the manga adaptation Brave Story: Shinsetsu!!!
Continue reading154 – Anime Interlude 5 – Welcome to the Ballroom
154 – Anime Interlude 5 – Welcome to the Ballroom
On this episode our buddy Miki’s Stopwatch stops by to join us in discussing this season’s hot(mostly not) anime and older stuff as well: Welcome to the Ballroom, Magical Circle(Mahoujin Guru Guru), Made in Abyss, Restaurant to Another World(Isekai Shokudou), Haibane Renmei, Ashita no Joe, Snow White with the Red Hair(Akagami no Shirayuki-hime), Love and Lies(Koi to Uso), Gamers!, Kakeguri: Compulsive Gambler, My First Girlfriend is a Gal(Hajimete no Gal), Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun(Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun), and RIN-NE(Kyokai no Rinne)! Also, Miki praises BEASTARS & The Ancient Magus’ Bride, we talk about the money behind anime streaming services, we talk about finding a theater that will show obscure anime movies, we talk about the New York Review of Books reviewing Ichi-F, darfox notices a change in Shuzo Oshimi’s art style, dakazu loves a tale of imaginary girl training victims in Chuni no Danshi to Dairokkan, and we debate the appeal of dark, weird, interesting manga like Naraku no Hitsuji!!!
Continue reading153 – Manga in Motion 20 – Death Note 2017
153 – Manga in Motion 20 – Death Note 2017
This week dakazu’s been reading a lot! He’s amazed that Mizuki Shigeru was writing Watashi no Hibi when he was 91, checks out a decent rugby manga called Full Drum, sick of edgelord gore manga like Pygmalion, and finds a similar loser protagonist in Boys on the Run. Also, Seamus checks out volume 2 of Girl’s Last Tour, we check in with our weekly BEASTARS update, and dakazu has been deceived by the false advertising of GAMERS. Then we examine Netflix’s version of Death Note! We recap the original source material and weigh in on whether this movie is a good adaptation or not!
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